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Not since Newton’s apple has there been a physics phenomenon as deliciously appealing to the masses as Frank Close’s Cosmic Onion. Widely embraced by scientists and laypersons alike, the book quickly became an international bestseller. Translated into seven languages, it propelled the author to become a worldwide celebrity as well as an inspiration to a generation of scientists. The book’s title itself has entered popular usage as a metaphor for the layers that can be peeled away to understand the foundations of the physical world, from dimensions and galaxies, to atoms and quarks.
“Close is a lucid, reliable, and enthusiastic guide to the strange and wonderful microcosmic world that dwells deep within reality”
— Frank Wilczek, Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, MIT, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics
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- Explains the principles behind the Hadron Collider as well as the potential it presents
- Considers the recent development of the Electroweak Theory as a law of nature
- Explores the mysteries uncovered and the ones that may be in store with regard to top and bottom quarks
Keeping still-pertinent contents from the original volume that caught the world’s attention in 1983, this fresh edition of the Cosmic Onion includes extensive new material to reflect new views of the universe. Providing explanations that explore the foundations of 21st Century science and future directions, this work offers ready access and unique perspectives to more typical topics such as the forces of nature, atoms, the nucleus, and nuclear particles.
It also travels down paths that only a true pioneer and educator can venture, such as a discussion of what Professor Close refers to as the Eightfold Way including the findings, surprises, and new questions emerging from the latest work with accelerators.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an updated (Dec 2006), and slightly more advanced, version of the bestseller The Cosmic Onion. Suitable for school leavers/first year university students, as well as the general reader, it provides a mostly non-mathematical introduction to the current state of particle physics, with particular reference to quarks. In particular, it describes the principles behind the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the varieties of quarks, QCD, the electroweak force, neutrinos, CP violation, Higgs boson, and the big bang (219 pages). Numerous diagrams aid understanding, and the book is very easy to read. Recommended for all those interested in particle physics and cosmology.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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This is a really excellent read. It is very well laid out, with a clear thread running through the narrative. The book keeps strictly to well proven science, and does not wander off into the realms of exotic theories which abound these days. However it brings the reader fully up-to-date with particle physics and the reasons for building the Large Hadron Collider.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
I recommend this updated issue to anyone really interested in how things work at the atomic and sub-atomic level. Close explains things very well and I found it easy to assimilate. The book is primarily directed at physics students and people who are reasonably intelligent-which means that many people will never ever read such matter. Other ebooks are more inexpensive though such as Atoms, Sub-Atomic Particles, Space, Time and Other Cool Stuff which isn't quite as good but more entertaining. I notice that some people are critical of ebook prices-but they fail to understand that ebooks are subject to VAT and other charges. Professor Close will not be getting rich on his onion.
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